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Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Initiatives (27 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 157. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have availed of the cross-border directive to have cataracts removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39269/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Initiatives (27 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 159. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have availed of the cross-border directive for orthopaedic operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39272/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Young Farmers Scheme (27 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 162. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an anomaly concerning young farmers (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39185/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (27 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans for fibre broadband at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39140/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (27 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 221. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39135/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (27 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 223. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is receiving a reduced rate of disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39172/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (27 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 224. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason payments to a person (details supplied) were reduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39173/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (27 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: 249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the sale of local authority housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39277/18]

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: He is not being frivolous.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: How can the Minister say that?

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: Deputy Sherlock is withdrawing his own name from it.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: It is important that signage and advertisements directing people to visitor centres and places that have built up trade would continue to be allowed in the future regardless of whatever is passed by the Dáil. If the amendments will help or assist that, they are obviously important. We cannot have a situation of the goalposts being moved in the middle of the game. For those who applied...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: Having heard the Minister's response, I am all the more concerned with regard to this specific issue. Anything the Minister said certainly does not convince me. I am listening attentively to what my colleagues are saying. We have not thought through the enormity of what we are doing here, the implications it will have and what it will mean. While I respect Deputies such as Deputy...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: I have a big problem with this in that I do not want the labelling in English or Irish because, quite simply, it is making us the laughing stock of the rest of the world. Nowhere else do people feel fit to put these labels on alcohol. Why do we have to race to the bottom? We are speaking about putting it in Irish and English when we should not be putting it at all. It comes back to this...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: They are the words of wisdom of a man who is 104 years of age. I do not think we have to be labelling our products in any language to educate people to the fact if they do too much of one thing it is bad for them. I appreciate that Deputy Donnelly is very genuine in his motives but it is wrong. Coming back to the industry, it will put us at a disadvantage to everybody else. People in...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: I take grave exception to this amendment. I will give an example of what might happen if we take this to its ultimate conclusion. Hairdressers were mentioned and many people attend them. Let us take the opening day of a new hairdresser premises. If people are invited to the launch, and taking this proposal to its ultimate conclusion, it could be wrong to offer a drink to would-be...

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: If one lives long enough, a Cheann Comhairle, one will get to see everything. A short number of years ago, the Labour Party abolished 80 town councils bald-headed.

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: Regardless of their political persuasion, I adored the 744 councillors whose positions were eliminated. I did not care whether they represented Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, the Labour Party or Sinn Féin, or were Independents. They were doing great work in their localities. The Fine-Gael-Labour Party Government of that time was so arrogant that it thought it could impose whatever it...

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: In my book, local councillors are not thanked half enough for the work they do. The Labour Party and Fine Gael thanked them by getting rid of them. It is hypocritical of Deputy Howlin to propose now that these councils be re-established. He and his ministerial colleagues did not listen to us at the time. We did not just ask them to retain the councils; we begged them to do so. It was not...

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Michael Healy-Rae: They were just being so arrogant that they thought they could do whatever they wanted and get away with it.